Poinciana Park To Blossom Soon

January 10, 1996|By ROY WENZL Staff Writer

CORAL SPRINGS - — How to make a square mile of people happy: Mix $227,000 with six acres of city-owned land, pour the flooring of tennis and basketball courts, let it harden. Add trees for the garnish of natural vegetation.

And by the end of the school year you will have Poinciana Park, the city's lastest neighborhood park. The name applies because the city plans to plant a Royal Poinciana, one of those big-canopy trees with blossoms that turn bright orange in May and June.

Plans for the park, at 4300 NW 87th Ave. in north Coral Springs, are being finalized this week. It will be just south-southeast of the Kmart that sits along Wiles Road at University Drive.

It will also lie just to the northwest of the 40 acres of natural pinelands the city just bought from a local devleoper. When both parcels are developed, said Jack Doughney, director of Leisure Services, you'll be able to picnic or play games at Poinciana and walk over to take nature walks in the land to the south.

"It'll be a pretty little place when it's done," Doughney said of Poinciana Park.

It will cost $227,000 to build, Doughney said. Of that, $100,000 will come from a state grant; the rest comes from the city. The park will include tennis courts, basketball courts, sand volleyball court, a fitness area, a picnic pavilion, and a paved pathway for skaters and walkers.

There will be minimal parking, Doughney said, because a neighborhood park is supposed to serve people just from the neighborhood within walking distance.

The site right now contains about $7,500 in playground equipment for a tot lot.